"When I was elementary school age, my parents left me home alone while they went to pick up my sister from a school event. I thought it would be funny to prank 911. I called and said, 'There's an escaped murderer in my house!' and hung up, laughing at my funny joke. I got an immediate callback. I panicked, answered the phone, and hung up. They called back again, so I unplugged the landline. Just as the police were pulling up, my parents pulled up, too. The police pulled a gun on my dad and made him prove he lived there. I was so scared of getting in trouble that I made up a story about a man knocking on the door and trying to force his way in. I told them he was a white man with a dark beard and that he ran in the cornfield. I don't think my parents ever knew I made it all up. The next day, the Oklahoma City bombing happened, and I thought it was God punishing people because he was mad at what I did."
"I pretended to be blind for a day. I fooled three doctors until I got some fancy test that proved me wrong. My family was PISSED. I wanted glasses because I thought they looked cool."
A childhood prank calling 911 resulted in an armed police response to a home and the child's panic escalated the situation. The child unplugged the phone, fabricated an intruder description, and watched police confront the parent. The child later associated a major national tragedy with personal guilt over the prank. In a separate incident, someone feigned blindness to obtain glasses and deceived multiple doctors until a conclusive test revealed the truth. Family members reacted angrily upon learning of the deception. Both stories illustrate how impulsive lies can produce serious, unforeseen repercussions and damaged trust.
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